Partido MAN

{{Infobox Political Party

|country = Curaçao

|name = MAN-PIN Party

|native_name = Partido MAN

|native_name_lang = Dutch

|logo = Partido MAN.png

|logo_size = 220px

|leader = Giselle McWilliam

|leader1_title = Founder

|leader1_name = Don Martina

|leader2_title =

|leader2_name =

|foundation = 6 February 1971

|merger =

|ideology = Social democracy

|position = Centre-left

|youth_wing=

|wing1_title=

|wing1 =

|international =

|colours = Blue

|colorcode = #221f62

|headquarters =

|website = http://www.partidoman.org/

|seats1_title = Estates of Curaçao

|seats1 = {{Composition bar|2|21|hex=#221f62}}

}}

Partido MAN is a political party in Curaçao founded in 1971,{{cite news|url=http://www.versgeperst.com/nieuws/175561/partijen-aan-het-woord-man-2.html|title=Partijen aan het woord:MAN|access-date=13 October 2012|date=12 October 2012|author=Leoni Leidel-Schenk|language=nl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014081234/http://www.versgeperst.com/nieuws/175561/partijen-aan-het-woord-man-2.html|archive-date=14 October 2012}} which has two of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curaçao after the Curaçao general election of 2021.{{cite web |last=Ottens |first=Nick |url=https://atlanticsentinel.com/2021/03/curacao-election-result-will-set-off-alarm-bells-in-netherlands/ |title=Curaçao Election Result Will Set Off Alarm Bells in Netherlands |date= 20 March 2021 |access-date=22 March 2021}} In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained two seats as well and joined the coalition government.{{cite web|url=http://www.registrosivil.an/eiland2010/index.html|title=Eilandsraadverkiezingen 27 augustus 2010, definitieve uitslag|work=Burgerlijke Stand, Bevolking en Verkiezingen; Government of the Netherlands Antilles|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115103933/http://www.registrosivil.an/eiland2010/index.html|archive-date=15 November 2012}}

Name

MAN originally stood for Movementu Antia Nobo (English: New Antilles Movement), but a party congress in 2005 decided to drop that meaning and let MAN be the name of the party in itself.

Netherlands Antilles

Don Martina, minister-president of the Netherlands Antilles from 1979 until 1984 and from 1986 to 1988, was MAN-related.

At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2% of the popular vote and no seats,{{cite web|url=http://www.kse.cw/registrosivil/land2002/uitslag2002/index.html|title=Totaaluitslag 2002|work=Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral)|access-date=3 October 2012|language=nl}} at the Netherlands Antilles general election of 2006, the party returned in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles with 3 out of 14 seats of the Curaçao constituency in the 22 seat parliament.{{cite web|url=http://www.kse.cw/registrosivil/land2006/uitslag2006/index.html|title=Totaaluitslag 2006|work=Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral)|access-date=3 October 2012|language=nl}} In the last Netherlands Antilles general election in 2010, the party participated together with NPA and FK obtaining 5 seats.{{cite web|url=http://www.kse.cw/land2010.html|title=Totaaluitslag 2010|work=Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral)|access-date=3 October 2012|language=nl}}

In the island council (Netherlands Antilles) of 2003 and 2007, the party obtained 2 and 5 seats respectively.{{cite web|url=http://www.kse.cw/registrosivil/eiland2003/uitslag2003/index.html|title=Verkiezingsuitslag 2003|work=Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral)|access-date=3 October 2012|language=nl}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kse.cw/eiland2007.html|title=Eilandsraadverkiezingen, 2007|work=Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral)|access-date=3 October 2012|language=nl}} The two seats the party obtained in the 2010 island council elections continued as the Estates of Curaçao on 10 October 2010.

Election results

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Election !Leader ! Seats ! +/– ! Votes ! % ! Position ! Government
1971 \| \|{{Composition bar\|1\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
1979 \| \|{{Composition bar\|6\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
1983 \| \|{{Composition bar\|8\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
1987 \| \|{{Composition bar\|6\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
1991 \| \|{{Composition bar\|3\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
1995 \| \|{{Composition bar\|6\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
1999 \| \|{{Composition bar\|2\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| \| \| \| \|
2003 \| rowspan="2" \|Charles Cooper \|{{Composition bar\|2\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \|{{steady}} \|6,274 \|9.34 \| \|
2007 \|{{Composition bar\|5\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \|{{increase}} 3 \|13,923 \|18.7 \| \|
2010 \|Eunice Eisden \| {{Composition bar\|2\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| {{decrease}} 3 \| 6.531 \| 8.8 \| {{decrease}} 4th \| {{yes2\|Coalition}}
2012 \|Charles Cooper \| {{Composition bar\|2\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| {{steady}} \| 8,294 \| 9.5 \| {{decrease}} 5th \| {{no2\|Opposition}}
2016 \| rowspan="2" \|Hensley Koeiman \| {{Composition bar\|4\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| {{increase}} 2 \| 12,839 \| 16.23 \| {{increase}} 1st \| {{yes2\|Coalition}}
2017 \| {{Composition bar\|5\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| {{increase}} 1 \| 16,070 \| 20.4 \| {{decrease}} 2nd \| {{yes2\|Coalition}}
2021 \|Steven Martina \| {{Composition bar\|2\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| {{decrease}} 3 \| 5,456 \| 6.43 \| {{decrease}} 4th \| {{no2\|Opposition}}
2025{{efn\|Run in a joint list with Partido Inovashon Nashonal.}} \|Giselle McWilliam \| {{Composition bar\|2\|21\|hex=#221f62}} \| {{steady}} 0 \| 6,378 \| 8.46 \| {{steady}} 4th \| {{no2\|Opposition}}

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Election

!Leader

! Seats

! +/–

! Votes

! %

! Position

! Government

1971

|{{Composition bar|1|21|hex=#221f62}}

1979